A blog is born

Hello there! I'm not sure how you got here, but thank you for finding me. I am no NY Times bestselling author, so I can't promise this will be "edge of your seat exciting", but just maybe you will find my thoughts interesting! I am married and have a little girl who is 1 year old. We have two dogs also. I quit my job when I had our daughter so that I could stay at home with her. I'll be honest, I was scared about the new change! You see, I've never been a really good housekeeper. From as far back as I remember my mom was always forcing me to clean my room and pick up my messes. Unfortunately her efforts were fruitless, because as a 30 something adult I still have a messy room, er, house. I always have a good excuse - I'm ADD! The baby takes up all of my time! I'm tired! But in the end, there is really no excuse.

The purpose of this blog is for me to grow and change and really make a good effort at improving my skills as a stay at home mom and wife. See, I really like this gig, and I need to feel like I'm going the best I can. My only job is to raise our daughter, put good healthy meals on the table, and run the household. Sounds easy, right? Of course I'm joking there, but it does require a lot of organization. When I put my mind do doing something, I know I can do it! I'm an all or nothing type of gal and I really need to learn that a little failure is going to happen along the way and not let that throw you off the wagon into a nightmare of dirty dishes and piles of dirty laundry.

Below I will post my mission statement and week 1's goal. I'm going to do a new goal each week. I like to take things slow and really get used to them, so I'm giving myself a whole 7 days to get used to each week's new goal. So here goes nothing...

Mission: Reorganize my life and make this a happy, clean and enjoyable home for my family.

Week 1 Goal: Every evening before bed make sure that all the counters in the kitchen are clean, sink is empty, table cleaned off, and floor swept.